Sentence examples similar to half horsepower from inspiring English sources

"So if you have a 200-foot well a short distance from the house, a one-half horsepower pump should provide about seven gallons per minute, and that should be enough for an average household".

You cannot win a war on half-horsepower.

The new Cuisinart DLC-X Plus is a 20-cup food processor -- that's "soup's on" for a typical family of 14 -- with a one-and-a-half-horsepower motor.

Late-model cars have roughly half the horsepower of racecars in the Nextel Cup Series.

Though it makes barely half the horsepower of the CCXR, the diesel Audi R8 V-12 TDI LeMans concept does churn out similar gobs of torque (738 pound-feet vs. 782 for the Swede).

The cars, weighing 1,500 pounds, have half a horsepower per pound of vehicle weight, ten times a typical passenger car's ratio.

With half of the horsepower of the Passat with a V-6, the TDI is far from quick, clicking off 8.6 seconds from a standstill to 60 m.p.h.

With half the weight, half the horsepower and half the aerodynamic drag of top-line LMP1 cars like the Audi R18s expected to dominate the show, Mr. Bowlby says the DeltaWing should move just as quickly, with a top speed approaching 225 miles per hour.

Putting out 400 horsepower, more than half of the racing engine is comprised of components lifted directly from the passenger-car variant.

In the one market it still dominates mainframes prices drop so fast that IBM had to sell twice the horsepower in the first half to muster a 10% rise in revenue.

On a two-and-a-half-mile superspeedway like Dayona, restricting horsepower with plates between the carburetor and intake manifold reduces speed; imagine running with your mouth and one nostril closed.